Don and Peter's Hot Rod Corner

[MountainDon]

Inspired by a post on another topic I dug back and found these pictures.

Anyone who has ever hot rodded an engine may have used one od Ed Iskenderian's camshafts. Ed was known as the Camfather. The first performance cam I ever bought was an Isky. I was so pleased with it I only ever bought one other brand, a Crane, because I couldn't get an Isky grind when I wanted a cam for a bike I was working on.

Anyhow one of the most well known old hot rods was Ed's 1924 Model T. He began his cam grinding career welding and regrinding cams to make it go faster. The car still exists today in the same configuration and condition from the 1940's. It can be seen at the NHRA museum in Pomona, CA. It's a non restored original, probably the oldest existing Hot Rod.





That engine is a '32 Ford V8 with a set of maxi OHV conversion heads.









The car went 120 mph before WW2 and faster after.





The business still grinds cams. Ed still smokes cigars.

ED is probably one of the more prolific collectors of reusable vehicles and vehicle components. He has several acres worth of old stuff he has collected over the decades in Gardena.

[Redoverfarm]

Don I looked for this thread to post the video but didn't find it so i went to the best next thing that I could. It was getting late. You can move if you like.

[MountainDon]

I'll just paste in the info from your post under Cars and leave it over there as well with a link here. Easier than moving.


A few from the good ole days.

http://thefiftiesandsixties.com/CarsWeDrove.htm


I have many topics like this one in my notification list, in order to track responses on topics I want to be ablr to find. Of course that means you get an email when new posts appear. If the emails is a bother one wishes to avoid you could also make a special bookmarks/favorits folder for CP topics and save the topics to there.

[Jens]

I love the Isky T.  I saw it at the 50th GNRS, awesome. 

check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=369h-SEBXd8

[rick91351]

Wow Don I never knew you..... well never mind..... 

I ran in to an add the other day for Honest Charley's Speed Shop.  And I was assured I can still buy a rod from the frame up from the catalog.  I figured it was a thing of the past. 

www.honestcharley.com/

Now you say Ed Iskenderian's Company is still grinding cams, and he is still smoking cigars.

With all these old gear heads popping up suddenly I had to check it out to see for sure if Garlits and the old Swamp Rat with Tommy Ivo and the Showboat was not making a tour with Tom McEwen and Don Prudhomme to a local strip near by this coming spring.....

[MountainDon]

Yep Rick,  a lot of familiar names that bring back lots of old memories.  

Garlits, Prudhomme and Ivo are still alive I believe. Not sure about the Mongoose though. Our regional heroes were Tom Hoover and Doc Holliday who ran out of Minnesota. Hoovers AA fuel dragster was the irst one I ever saw with reverse gear. That was a real surprise. At the time I was an assistant line man and our main job was to drag them back to the start line ater their burnout. Hoover did a big burnout and let himsel roll way down the track. Three os us looked at each other and said WTF!. Everyone else would slam on the brakes to make the job easier. Anyhow we ran off to get the car and the next thing we knew he was backing up.  

I had a friend in high school was a distant relative of Honest Charley hisself.    

Those were the days, although I was split between drag racing and sports car road racing.  

Thanks or reviving the memories.  

How about Dean Moon and mooneyes...... and moon discs.....  baby moons.....  

look at all the flathead goodies at honest charley's

[NM_Shooter]

Hey Don... one of the pix above of the driver's seat is odd.  It seems to be either missing a clutch or a brake.  Unless the thing was just running WOT all the time 

[MountainDon]

Good eye Frank. Those 2 pedals go through the floor like a clutch and brake would so the gas pedal is missing. 

[Sassy]

Hey Don... one of the pix above of the driver's seat is odd.  It seems to be either missing a clutch or a brake.  Unless the thing was just running WOT all the time 

I noticed that too, but just thought it was because I'm not that "car savvy"   

Anybody ever see this video?  Pretty amazing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfxwTUCaocA&feature=player_embedded

[MountainDon]

Yep, he's a lucky guy!!!

[NM_Shooter]

It appears that the right front tire completed the 1/4 mile in 10.69, and the drivers seat made it in 10.80.

Not bad for a normally aspirated piece of upholstery. 

[diyfrank]

I was reading about this car today. What an amazing build.
http://www.mat.fi/project1929fordmodel-a.htm

And a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFSGSL3Nrmc

[Redoverfarm]

Not sure whether this has been posted before but here it is anyway.  Some will remember and others just wish.

http://cruzintheavenue.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

[eddiescabin]

Just spotted this thread...my brother recently re-purchased his first car, a 1966 Chevelle SS (true 138 car).  It only took him like 30 years to do it!  He just dropped a ZZ502 and 6 speed Tremac tranny in. To say it is fast is an understatement.  Part of the "break in" straight from Chevy was to get into the motor pretty hard, in short bursts. Think approaching redline.  This was difficult as 1/2 throttle scared the crap out of us!  Then , where does one find a suitable road for such? (well, in California anyway)  the freeway onramps were the best we could do.  Tough watching my older brother having a mid life crisis, but after he rebuilt a large home in Cali on just weekends for the last 5 years he owed himself a toy.  It sounds amazing, runs like a new car and that crate motor came with a warranty.  It's a 1966, but it's also a new car.

[MountainDon]

There was a local free hot rod show in the park today. I took a walk around. There were a couple hundred vehicles. This was one of my favorites.



1953 Chevy COE. 500 cu in Caddy engine with front wheel drive, custom rear box.

[John Raabe]

What a great ride. GM could learn a thing or two from this.

[Sassy]

Kinda looks like its pregnant